LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A driver who crashed into the again of a van on a freeway exterior Las Vegas, killing two youngsters, informed police he smoked “a bowl of marijuana” hours earlier, in keeping with paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained.
Steven Woods, 40, faces costs together with DUI leading to loss of life and rushing, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported after his arrest. The multi-vehicle crash occurred on the freeway round 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Might 4, on Interstate 15 close to Bunkerville. Two youngsters, ages six and 9, died within the crash.
Nevada Freeway Patrol troopers suspect Woods collided with the van as that automobile slowed in site visitors on a “straight stretch of road,” paperwork mentioned.
Woods “admitted to using a vape inhaler containing marijuana/THC the previous night at bedtime” and likewise mentioned he “[smoked] a bowl of marijuana flower” at 3 a.m. — 12 hours earlier, paperwork mentioned.
Impairment from marijuana can last as long as a day, the trooper wrote within the report. A 2021 examine from the state of Michigan discovered marijuana intoxication can last as long as eight hours, with its “residual effects” lasting a day.
After Woods’ arrest, a rural justice court docket decide set bail at $350,000, information mentioned. The decide ordered him to put on a drug patch and keep away from driving ought to he submit bond. A second decide later launched Woods from custody as a result of prosecutors had but to file costs, information mentioned. As a result of no costs had been filed, the decide launched Woods with the situation that he proceed to put on the drug patch and never drive.
Woods appeared in court docket Wednesday, the place a decide ordered him to endure random drug assessments, information mentioned. He remained out of custody and was ordered to not drive.
Woods was not because of return to court docket till July 16.
Woods’ public defender declined to remark.
